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Sneha Mandhan (she/her) is an urban planner, architect and educator with an interdisciplinary practice in planning, urban design, architecture, design research, and community engagement. She is currently working as an Intermediate Planner – Project Manager at ERA Architects. She has collaborated on a range of city building and engagement projects in the Greater Toronto Area with Monumental Projects, People Design Co-operative, and the Department of Words and Deeds. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, and holds a PhD in Planning from the University of Toronto, a Master in City Planning from MIT, and an undergraduate degree in architecture from India. Her work focuses on unearthing and incorporating culture into the planning and design of cities. For her PhD dissertation, she studied how municipal cultural and heritage planning practices in Toronto, Brampton and Mississauga respond to ethnic culture through the case study of banquet halls as important sites of cultural celebration for the South Asian diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area.